Harold James is the Director of the Program in Ethics, Culture, and Economic Development at the Witherspoon Institute. Educated at Cambridge University, he was a Fellow of Peterhouse for eight years before moving to Princeton in 1986, where he now serves as a professor in the History Department. He was a member of the Independent Commission of Experts investigating the political and economic links of Switzerland with Nazi Germany and of commissions to examine the roles of Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank. He is also Chairman of the Editorial Board of World Politics, and is a member of the executive committee of Princetons Institute for Regional and International Studies.

Publications:
The Roman Predicament (2006)
Family Capitalism (2006)
Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank (2004)

International Financial History in the Twentieth Century (2003)
Europe Reborn: A History 1914-2000 (2003)
Interwar Depression in an International Context (2002)
Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe (2002)
\Deutsche Bank and the Nazi economic war against the Jews (2001)Verbandspolitik im Nationalsozialismus (2001) The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression (2001)

Requiem auf eine Whrung: die Mark, 1873-2001 (2001)
Third Reich: The Essential Readings (1999)
Monetary and Fiscal Unification in Nineteenth Century Germany (1997)
International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (1996)

Zerrissene Zwischenkriegszeit (1994)
When the Wall Came Down (1992)
A German Identity (1989)
German Slump: Politics and Economics (1986)

Reichsbank and Public Finance in Germany (1985)